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Foremay® to Ship Mac SSD Designed for MacBook SSD Users

EC188™ M-Series SSD ( Solid State Drive ) products are the flash hard drives designed for optimized performance and compliance with Apple’s -based computers such as , MacBook Pro Unibody and MacBook Air.

FREMONT, California – October 12, 2009 – Foremay, Inc., a leader in solid state drives, today announced the EC188 M-Series solid state hard drives, which are designed and tested for compliance with various types and models of Apple computers based on the Macintosh operating systems. The EC188 M-Series flash disk drives come with optimized performance for Mac computers as one of the fastest SSD with read/write speeds up to 260/230 MB per second.

“SSD is well known today to be the key element for boosting computing speed for all computing machines and extending battery life in computers,” said Jason Hoover, Foremay Vice President of Marketing. “In the first half this year, we received numerous inquiries from the field asking for Mac SSD and MacBook SSD for various models of Mac machines, from Mac Pro to MacBook Air and the latest MacBook Pro Unibody. We hope that the EC188 M-Series solid state drive M-Series, which are designed and optimized for the various versions of Apple’s Mac OS X including the latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard, can meet the needs of these Mac SSD users with hassle-free operation.“

“Some customers complained that the SSDs they bought from the after market did not comply with the Macintosh OS,” added Jason. “That is one of the reasons that they turned to Foremay. Since the majority of flash disk drive vendors designed products around the Windows based OS, it is not surprising if one finds that a solid state drive bought from the after market is not compatible with one’s Mac computer. At Foremay, we have invested significant resources to develop and offer the EC188 M-Series solid state hard drive to be compatible with Mac computers and provide high performance.”

The EC188 M-Series solid state drives are available in various models which cover notebook Macs, desktop Macs and Mac servers with various types of solid state disk interfaces. The EC188 M-Series solid state drive is plug-n-play such that it requires zero software installation when upgrading a Mac with the EC188 M-Series SSD. The EC188 M-Series solid state drive is compatible with, but not limited to, the following Macintosh–based notebooks, desktops and servers in various series and sizes.

- MacBook and MacBook Pro - MacBook Pro Unibody - MacBook Air

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EC188 M-Series SSD Form Factors and Availability

The EC188 M-Series Solid State Drives include: - Different form factors: 2.5”, 1.8” and 3.5” - Different drive interfaces: SATA, micro SATA, SATA LIF, IDE and IDE ZIF/LIF - Different unit capacities: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1024GB.

The EC188 M-Series SSD is now shipping in volume production. Datasheets and pricing are available upon request; please contact [email protected]

About Foremay

Founded in the Silicon Valley in 2002, Foremay, Inc. is a leading company dedicated to designing and manufacturing of Solid State Drive ( SSD ) for high reliability mission critical computing, industrial computing, enterprise computing, and high end personal computing. Foremay's vision is to bring high reliability, high ruggedness and high performance solid state drives with “Green Initiatives” in mind. Foremay is headquartered in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. For more information and product details please visit www.foremay.net

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Dennis Eodice [email protected] +1 408 228 3468

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